Education: Extracurricular Activities

Education: Extracurricular Activities

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I chose to conduct my I-Search paper on the topic of how extracurricular activities affect students’ academic success. I believe that it is my participation in extracurricular activities that led me to be successful in middle school, high school, and college. When I was in middle and early high school, my home life was not ideal. My father physically abused my mother and he mentally abused me. To avoid the after-school hours where I would have to be home alone with my father, where I was treated as a servant and received put down after put down, I turned to extracurricular activities. They were my outlets to escape the harsh reality of home. I had my extracurricular schedule mapped out perfectly. On some days of the week I had to be at school early for club meetings and every day of the week I had an activity after-school where I would stay until my mom got off work and she could pick me up to take me to either dance or violin lessons. As a middle schooler I was putting in days that would last from seven o’clock in the morning to nine o’clock at night. For me, extracurricular activities were an opportunity to build friendships, gain more skills, and acquire items for my resume because I was determined at a young age that I was going to go to college…

unnecessary field trips or extracurricular activities. This is where the situation gets tricky. There are many that see sports and extracurricular activities as being vital to a student’s experience and they argue that participating in sports can help improve a person’s ability to work together with others and to gain many other social skills. Even though they are not wrong, there has to be a limit to the amount of money and time schools spend on sports and other extracurricular activities. Again, the purpose…

Extracurricular Activities
Research was performed on the claim of fact that students involved in extracurricular activities receive higher grades than those not involved in activities. This topic was studied because high school budgets are meager, and the administrations of these schools want to spend the money efficiently. Consequently, funding for extracurricular activities may be decreased. This report examines the correlation between extracurricular activities and academic performance…

benefits like branching out into extracurriculars does? Being smart can only take a person so far in life. Learning skills like time management, organization, and leadership are vital to a person’s success in the future; all of which can be learned through the experiences that extracurriculars provide. Therefore, being involved in extracurricular activities can prove to have stronger and a broader spectrum of benefits than solely focusing on grades.
Extracurriculars teach students lessons that will…

“Cheerleading is not an extracurricular activity. It is a sport, a sport of academic discipline.” Crowds have been cheering since the begininning of sports, however it wasn’t until the late 1800s that organized cheering was introduced. A man named Mark Peebles brought cheerleading with him to the University of Minnesota and started to create a specific set of cheers for different times during the games. Another student however, named Johnny Campbell, decided to take cheering to a whole new level…

among adults is that extracurricular activities interfere with their children’s education and have no overall benefit, but recent research and studies beg to differ.
Claim 1: Students’ should be engaged in extra-curricular activities because it instills in them valuable life skills and character traits needed for a successful future.
Claim 2:Students’ should participate in extra-curricular activities as doing so would make it easier for them to get into the post-secondary education or workplace they…

people. They can do many things here. That’s why inside of it, organizations were built, wherein it organizes activities in which it became an instruments to find new friends and to learn new things. With these extra-curricular activities, it can also help an individual to enhance one’s talents.
Generally, according to second year accounting students of San Beda College, extra-curricular activities has a big impact when it comes to their academic performance like their time in studying is lessen because…

adolescents to participate in extracurricular activities. Student who participate in these activities improve their academic scores and social life. Extracurricular activities can also help reduce many peer pressure related problems. “They enrich the lives of the students, their families and our communities. These activities create well rounded children who learn what their interests and talents are because they have been exposed to such opportunities” (Extracurricular Activities, Blogadmin). For most…

The Effects of Extracurricular Activities
Allison Kilburg
Clarke University
Author Note
This paper was prepared for Cornerstone II taught by Professor Joe Klinebriel.
Abstract
Benefits are reaped when students participate in extracurricular activities. There are many opportunities for these activities to take place in school, in the community, and even the state. Studies have shown that those involved in such activities do better academically, have better attendance rates, and have…

The Importance of Extracurricular Activities
Imagine walking across the stage in just a few years from now. Having thousands of eyes pointed at you as you take that emotional walk to finally receive your high school diploma. After a few years when you have graduated high school and started life, you're going to look back and think, what have I accomplished so far? Extracurricular activities can be very beneficial for students now, and those in the future as well. They can allow you to feel like…

participate in some type of extracurricular activities (Gardner, Roth and Brooks-Gunn, 2006). Extracurricular activities can include sports, journalism, drama or theater, art or music, youth groups, student council, and clubs. Today about one in four students participate in academics clubs (Miller & Zittleman, 2012). Since extracurricular activities are so popular among students, it is important to understand the pros and cons of engaging in extracurricular activities.
The purpose of this literature…